Word: richer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...verb inflections, the old French was richer in forms and in modes of distinguishing person and number...
...university stands not as a place of instruction alone, it stands as one of the agencies of Jesus Christ. It offers to those who enter today a larger, richer and deeper life than it has ever been possible for them heretofore to know. It is not destroying but fulfilling...
...Henry James, in his brief biography of Hawthorne, has lamented the bleakness and restriction of the New England environment, and has implied that richer and more complex surroundings and a more diversified experience of the world, would have strengthened the romancer's; genius in some of its most important elements. On the contrary, said Mr. Copeland, what could be more fortunate for a writer of romances, as distinguished from solidly founded novels of contemporary life, than a single and definite tradition, a homogeneous descent, and an imaginative sympathy with the bleak but stimulating past of his own country...
Camera Club.Boylston 9 was completely filled last night at the exhibition of the lantern slides from the Lantern Society of London. The slides were the best in artistic treatment for the general effect and in detail of all that have been yet exhibited. The landscapes were marked by a richer softness of coloring than in those of the Harvard Club. There were scenes from England, Venice, Egypt and Norway...
...same things that bring forth the best products, and to touch this tree is death. In every life there is a peculiar temptation. The banker, the minister, the man with a vigorous body, every one has a peculiar temptation favored by the circumstances of his life. The stronger and richer the life, the stronger is the temptation. That it is natural or rather inevitable to the life is no excuse but rather a reason for special effort against it. If a man fights bravely and at last successfully against his temptation it may in reality become to him a tree...